Femtosecond laser micromachining of diamond: Current research status, applications and challenges

B Ali, IV Litvinyuk, M Rybachuk - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultra-fast femtosecond (fs) lasers provide a unique technological opportunity to precisely
and efficiently micromachine materials with minimal thermal damage owing to the reduced …

Energy beam-based direct and assisted polishing techniques for diamond: a review

Z Li, F Jiang, Z Jiang, Z Tian, T Qiu… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Diamond is a highly valuable material with diverse industrial applications, particularly in the
fields of semiconductor, optics, and high-power electronics. However, its high hardness and …

Micromachining along a curve: Femtosecond laser micromachining of curved profiles in diamond and silicon using accelerating beams

A Mathis, F Courvoisier, L Froehly, L Furfaro… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We report femtosecond laser micromachining of micron-size curved structures using tailored
accelerating beams. We report surface curvatures as small as 70 μm in both diamond and …

Laser in micro and nanoprocessing of diamond materials

VI Konov - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Basic processing operations will be presented. These include diamond polishing and
sha**, production of conductive pathways, micro‐and nanostructures on the diamond …

Femtosecond laser written photonic and microfluidic circuits in diamond

V Bharadwaj, O Jedrkiewicz, JP Hadden… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Diamond has attracted great interest in the quantum optics community thanks to its nitrogen
vacancy (NV) center, a naturally occurring impurity that is responsible for the pink coloration …

Laser engineering nanocarbon phases within diamond for science and electronics

PS Salter, MP Villar, F Lloret, DF Reyes, M Krueger… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Diamond, as the densest allotrope of carbon, displays a range of exemplary material
properties that are attractive from a device perspective. Despite diamond displaying high …

[HTML][HTML] Optimised diamond to graphite conversion via a metastable sp1-bonded carbon chain formation under an ultra-short femtosecond (30 fs) laser irradiation

B Ali, H Xu, RT Sang, IV Litvinyuk, M Rybachuk - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
An application of an ultra-short femto-second (fs) pulsed laser (30 fs, 800 nm, 1 kHz)
radiation under a simultaneously varied laser fluence (0.6, 1.2 and 1.8 J/cm 2) and number …

Three dimensional laser microfabrication in diamond using a dual adaptive optics system

RD Simmonds, PS Salter, A Jesacher, MJ Booth - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Femtosecond laser fabrication of controlled three dimensional structures deep in the bulk of
diamond is facilitated by a dual adaptive optics system. A deformable mirror is used in …

Inscription of 3D waveguides in diamond using an ultrafast laser

A Courvoisier, MJ Booth, PS Salter - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Three dimensional waveguides within the bulk of diamond are manufactured using ultrafast
laser fabrication. High intensities within the focal volume of the laser cause breakdown of the …

High conductivity micro-wires in diamond following arbitrary paths

B Sun, PS Salter, MJ Booth - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
High quality graphitic wires embedded beneath the surface of single crystal diamond are
fabricated using a combination of adaptive ultrashort pulsed laser fabrication, high …